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A college is removing its vending machines after a student discovered they were using facial recognition technology (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A college is removing its vending machines after a student discovered they were using facial recognition technology::A photo shared on Reddit showed one of the vending machines with an error code suggesting it used facial recognition tech.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Glad the college I went to is too cheap for these fancy things. Their vending machines are just barely smart enough to use tap pay, and by barely I sometimes it doesn't even work.